The next best thing, because sharing the Mozilla Thunderbird Storage folder is giving me problems when I change networks, is to have an IMAP server that Thunderbird can store/retrieve messages with.
The mail from the Internet accounts could be copied to the IMAP server using Thunderbird, even if a delivery system (POP/SMTP) is not in place (for mail to get there otherwise). I installed SquirrelMail and tested this capability with Thunderbird already. I closed down sendmail, installed and started postfix. I set up the Cyrus IMAP, which was the hardest part of the IMAP/SquirrelMail setup.
The tutorials I found to help do this on Fedora Core 5 are:
http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/imapd/install.html
http://nakedape.cc/info/Cyrus-IMAP-HOWTO/quickstart-fedora.html
http://www.howtoforge.com/perfect_setup_fedora_core_5
The last one shows how to set up SMTP, as does the one from Cyrus itself. I'm still trying to figure out if I can have my own SMTP and use my IP Address (or its alias) as a domain for sending mail to.
Even if I can't, I think that having the IMAP server in place, just for storing mail, would be a big help as the mail would be accessible from anywhere (even using SquirrelMail).
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